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brush up on
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to practise and improve a skill or knowledge you have partly forgotten
British English can drop 'on': 'brush up your French'.
In context
I need to brush up on my English before I start working with the Australian team.
She's been brushing up on her driving skills since she moved back to Hue.
More idioms about study
- a bookworma person who loves reading and reads a lot
- a bright sparksaid ironically about someone whose clever idea was actually silly
- a closed booka subject that you do not understand or know anything about
- a crash coursea short course that teaches a lot in a very short time
- a dab hand at somethingvery good at a particular skill or activity